Manglawar (also spelled Manglor) ( ur, منگلور; ps, منګلور) is an administrative unit, known as Union council or Ward of Tehsil Babuzai, of Swat District in the

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province of Pakistan. It is located at 34°48'30.7"N 72°25'50.0"E with an average altitude of 987 meters (3,238.19 feet).

Administrative division

Manglawar is divided into sub-parts for better administrative hold. Manglawar is divided on the basis of two systems: * 1967-based: This division is based upon West Pakistan Land Revenue Act, 1967 (W.P. Act No. XVII of 1967). According to this division Manglawar is Union Council which also includes Union Council Aka Maruf Khel i-e: ( Bishbanr,

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, Banjot & Sar Sardaray) Goratai,

Taligram Taligram is an administrative unit, known as Union council, of Swat District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. District Swat has 9 Tehsils i.e. Khwazakhela, Kabal, Madyan, Barikot, Mingora, and Kalam. Each Tehsill comprises certain n ...

etc. This system is still used in most of

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and Land revenue systems. * KPK Local Government-based: This division is based upon the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Local Government System and Act 2013 which was recommended on 31 October 2013, and was practically applied in Local Bodies Election May 2015 by

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officials, as they are ruling at the time. According to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Local Government Act 2013. District Swat has 67

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, of which total amount of

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is 170, and neighborhood councils is 44. According to this system Manglawar is a ward which is further divided into two village councils: * Manglawar East * Manglawar West

Manglawar East

Manglawar East, also known as Manglawar No.1 or Aka Maruf, is a

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. It is situated on East side of Manglawar. Manglawar East is inhabited by Akamaroof

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which is a sub tribe or clan of

Babuzai Babuzai is a Union Council located in Mardan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The reason Babuzai is called Babuzai is because one of Pashtun tribe Babuzai is living here. District Mardan has 3 Tehsil Each Tehsil comprises certain numbers ...

. Manglawar East, Akamaroof consist of ''Haqdad Khel'', ''Mazid Khel'', ''Malakanan'', ''Miangan'', ''Mulan'' and other racial groups. Manglawar East consists of small Mohallas (''Mohallas; A bunch of Houses in one place''): # Shingrai ( ps, شنګرئ) # Salanda ( ps, سالنډه) # Said Abad ( ps, سيد آباد) # Azimabad ( ps, عظیم آباد) # Murad Abad ( ps, مراد آباد) # Gul Mayera ( ps, ګل ميره) # Azgharai ( ps, ازغرې) # Enzartangai ( ps, انځرتنګې) # Dewangai ( ps, ديوانګې) # Batra ( ps, باترا) # Shakhorai ( ps, شخورئ) # Tekai ( ps, ټکې) # Mohalla Haqdad Khel ( ps, حقداد خيل) # Kuz Mazid Khel ( ps, کوز مزيد خيل) # Mazid Khel Bala ( ps, بر مزيد خيل) # Mohalla BakhtMand Khan ( ps, محله بخت مند خان) # Gudyan ( ps, ګوډيان) # Mohalla Madi Khel ( ps, محله مدې خيل) # Mohalla Saidan ( ps, محله سيدان) Manglawar comes in Manglawar Ward No.39 East-1. The following are details on electoral point of view (LG Election 2015): * Amount of register voters is 9175. * Of which male is 5055 and female is 4125. * Charge No: 308 * Circle No: 07 * Block No: 01, 04, 05, 06 & 08 * Block Code: 003080701, 003080704, 003080705, 003080706, 003080708 * The amount of allotted seats for General Councilor is: 9.

Manglawar West

Manglawar West also known as Manglawar No.2 or Bami Khel is a

. It is situated on West side of Manglawar. Manglawar West is inhabited by Bami Khel

which is a sub tribe of

. Manglawar West also known as Bami Khel consisted of ''Musa Khel'', ''Burhan Khel'', ''Mir Khel'', ''Usman Khel'', ''Langar Khel'', ''Bibal Khel'', ''Fateh Khan Khel'', ''Dawlat Khel'', ''Esa Khel'', ''Miangan'', ''Mulan'' and other peoples. Manglawar West consists of small mohallas (a bunch of houses in one place): # Ali Khan Khel ( ps, علي خان خيل) # Fateh Khan Khel ( ps, فتح خان خيل) # Bibal Khel ( ps, بيبل خيل) # Rahat Abad (Gharib Abad) ( ps, راحت آباد ، غريب آباد) # Kara ( ps, کړه) # Kalkata ( ps, کالکټه) # Zanagram ( ps, زنګرام) # Miangan ( ps, مياګان) # Mohalla Esa Khel ( ps, محله عيسي خيل) # Garai Kalay ( ps, ګړئ کلې) # Manglawar Pul ( ps, منګلور پل) # Malak Nagar ( ps, ملک نګر) # Dawlat Khel ( ps, دولت خيل) # Tawheed Abad ( ps, توحيد آباد) # Shaheed Abad ( ps, شهيد آباد) # Gulshan Colony Maira ( ps, ګلشن کالوني ميره) # Cheel ( ps, چيل) # Mohalla Bakht Pur Khan ( ps, محله بخت پور خان) # Bhatai ( ps, بټئ) # Shakaray ( ps, شکرې) # Shaldara ( ps, شلدره)

Local Bodies Election 2015

Local Bodies Elections were held on May 29, 2015. Manglawar East and West have their own chairman and vice chairman. Manglawar is a whole Ward having its own local Ggvernment, consisting of District Councilor and Tehsil Councilor. According to Election Commission of Pakistan the following are the Cabinet for five years: Before this ''Nazim'' (chairman) and ''Naib Nazim'' (Vice Chairman) in 2002 were Malak Bakhtmand Khan (Late) and Haji Bakhtiar Khan (Late).

Population

In 1998 population of Manglawar was 164000. Total population of Manglawar is estimated to be around 45 thousands.

Education

Educational institutes

Government sector

Total number of government boys' schools in Manglawar are: 47 Details of which are given below:

Sports

Residents of Manglawar take a keen interest in sports. Local games include ''Parpatonay'', ''Amprakakay'', ''Tekaan (Belwori)'', ''Gwatai'', ''Shengrii (Qoramban)'', ''Qat'', ''Ludo'', ''Ghal bacha'', ''Peetogaram'', ''Da Simano Elay'', ''Chendakh'', ''Parai'', and ''Neenzaki''. They also play

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cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

and

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Manglawar Ground

Manglawar has its own ground on the West side of Manglawar near Sangota and Excelsior College Swat, opposite to ''Pakistan State Oil Fuel Station'', and beside Miangul Abdul Haq Jahanzeb Kidney Hospital. In the playground, the youth of Manglawar plays after dawn time. The approximate Length of Manglawar Playground is 195 meters and width is 70 meters (''9 Kanal, 17 Marley''). There are football posts and goalposts. You can also play Cricket.

Football teams

Manglawar currently has a number of football teams, which take part in Village-based and Inter

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. They are: * Manglawar Eleven Football Club * Prince Eleven Football club * Eleven star Manglawar * Al sayed Salanda Manglawar had very famous teams in past like Tofan Eleven and Brazil Eleven. Manglawar have some legends of footballers named Rahmat Ali ChaCha, Rahim Ali, Duraj Khan and Rokhan. Manglawar also had junior teams, including *United Manglawar *Young Man Manglor *Eagle star fc *Young 11 Manglor *Shaghai fc Manglawar *Intezar fc

Cricket teams

Cricket teams are as follows: * Manglawar Eleven Cricket Club * Manglawar Titans * Skylark Manglawar * Hunter Cricket Club Manglawar * Manglawar Gladiator cricket club *Manglawar lions

Online gaming

The people of Manglawar are into online games as well, PUBG, Free Fire and 8 ball pool etc. . Mehrban is one the most skilled and a popular PUBG player.

Addresses

Post office

Manglawar Swat has BO (Branch Office)Post Office in Manglawar Swat
''Retrieved 28 Nov, 2015'' which works under GPO Saidu Sharif.Saidu Sharif, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - Postal Codes
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Postal Code

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of Manglawar is 19201. While postal code of Saidu Sharif GPO is 19200.

ZIP Code

ZIP code of Swat (Station: Saidu Sharif) is 19200. So Manglawar also has ZIP code 19200.

Fame

Manglawar is famous for many things. Some of them are: * Manglawar is famous for, as it is having the second biggest rock carved Buddha Statue (formally called as Budh Ghat) at Jahan Abad (Janabad) in

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after Buddha of Bamiyan. * Dwa Saro, the second highest mountain in

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of approximately 10,000 feet from Sea level. * Malka Swat, the queen of Malak Ahmad Baba (Founder of Yusufzai in Swat) was from here, also now she is buried in ''Dherai Manglawar''. * Sultan Awais (Sultan’was) the last emperor o
Swati
Yousafzai state was from Manglawar, the remains of the castle are still observable. * It is said that

Mubaraka Yusufzai Bibi Mubarika Yusufzai ( ps, بيبي مبارکه یوسفزۍ;) was the Empress consort of the Mughal Empire. She was the fifth wife of Emperor Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire and the first Mughal emperor. She is frequently mentioned in ...

, the wife of

Babur Babur ( fa, , lit= tiger, translit= Bābur; ; 14 February 148326 December 1530), born Mīrzā Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad, was the founder of the Mughal Empire in the Indian subcontinent. He was a descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan through his ...

, was from Manglawar. * Manglawar, the ancient capital of Swat (Udyana or Swastu). * Tourist attraction to Waterfall in Shingrai. * Fishes, Manglawar has a river where best variety of fishes having a mouth-watering taste, hunters came from far flung areas to quench their desire with the piquant taste. * Furniture and woodworking handicrafts work is also famous made for the locally produced wood from the jungles of Manglawar.Swat wood carvers: Creating delicate timber masterpieces
Tribune, ''Published: April 10, 2011''Wood carving tradition stays alive in Swat, Dawn, ''Published: 18 June 2015'' * Cement rocks which is in Shingrai. * Manglawar is site for the best Rabab players, and loke singer of

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. * For Education, as compared to

, Manglawar has more than educated people from other places. * Cobbler's make shoes, which are famous for their beauty. * Pul Shopar (''Gungri'' also known as a cocktail) is a food, people from far areas used to enjoy it mostly on Friday. etc.

Hospitals

Miangul Abdul Haq Jahanzeb Kidney Hospital

Miangul Abdul Haq Jahanzeb Kidney Hospital JKHis situated in ''Garai Kalay Manglawar''

. It is a 110-bed hospital and was a Project of Punjab Hospitals Trust. It is spread over 32

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at a cost of . According to officials, the hospital has 40-bed urology and 40-bed nephrology units that provide all sorts of services including free surgeries at three state-of-the-art operation theatres for renal diseases. They added that on average, 90 dialysis treatments were conducted at the facility which had also ICU and HDU to cope with seriously ill patients.

Economy

Crops & Fruits

The village climate is favorable for many crops and fruits. The village not only fulfills their own need but also supplies its product to other areas. Among these are Apricots ( ps, خوبانئ), Palms, & Peach, Maize, Wheat, Rice ( ps, شولې), Vegetables are more common.

Insurgency

During the insurgency period of Swat, the People of Manglawar suffered from the Terrorism of extremists. But compared to other parts of

, Manglawar suffered less. Because of the less involvement of people in such instances. When the Pakistani military agreed on doing an operation against terrorism, the people of Manglawar migrated from their homes to

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, Mardan,

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During these black days one of high-profile Miangul Asfandyar Amir Zeb was assassinated in

Manglawar on 28 December 2007 with six of his supporters including Malak Bakhtmand khan and Zahir Shah Khan.

Miscellaneous

Babagan

Baz Dada (in Manglawar bazar), Mian Shah Rasool baba (in Manglawar ada), Mian Shekh baba (in Shakhorai) are spiritual people which are buried in Manglawar. There are many folk tales attached to them in local people. In Manglawar a brave women fighter is also graved named as Shaheeda Abai.

Bank

National Bank of Pakistan (Branch Code 231639 or 1639) is situated near Manglawar Pul.

Time zone

Time zone of Manglawar is

Pakistan Standard Time Pakistan Standard Time ( ur, , abbreviated as PKT) is UTC+05:00 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. The time zone is in use during standard time in Asia. History Pakistan had been following UTC+05:30 since 1907 (during the British Raj) ...

: PST (UTC+5).

e-Sahulat

e-Sahulat (Branch Code: 61317) is situated in a Mall which is situated near Manglawar Pul / Bridge.

Shingrai Waterfall

Shingrai Waterfall Shingrai Waterfall ( ur, ) also known as Shingro Dand ( ps, ) is a waterfall located in Shingrai Manglawar in Swat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa the Province of Pakistan. It is known for its high and beautiful surrounding. It is about from Ming ...

(often called: ''ShingroDand'') is situated in Shingrai Manglawar, which is situated in Swat Valley,

the province of Pakistan. It is located from Manglawar and about northeast of

Mingora Mingora ( ps, مینګورہ, ur, ) is a city in the Swat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Located on the Swat River, it is the 3rd largest city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the 26th largest in Pakistan. Mingora is the largest city and t ...

. Shingrai Waterfall is about above sea level. It is wide and about in height.Video: Swat Story Special Shingrai
''Retrieved: 28 Nov, 2015''

References

External links

Manglawar Swat Blog

Video documentary
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Wikimedia Manglawar village

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Government website section on Lower Dir

United Nations

Hajjinfo.org Uploads

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Government website section on Lower Dir
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